TikTok

Regulatory Privacy Counsel

TikTok$127K — $297K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Significant years of legal experience, ideally in both private practice and in-house roles.
  • Strong background in privacy, data protection, and regulatory compliance.
  • Proven experience managing complex cross-border regulatory issues.
  • Excellent collaboration skills across diverse teams in Legal and Product spaces.
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and prioritize multiple urgent tasks effectively.
  • Fluent in English, with exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Familiarity with online safety and AI regulations is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Support regulatory matters in LatAm, Canada, and the AMA regions, focusing on privacy and data protection.
  • Advise on privacy, AI, and digital regulations affecting product features and youth safety.
  • Monitor and evaluate emerging laws and enforcement trends in various jurisdictions.
  • Coordinate cross-functional responses to regulatory inquiries, including risk assessments and compliance plans.
  • Collaborate with teams on strategies for regulatory readiness and implementation of legal frameworks.
  • Develop global positions on age assurance, AI governance, and data handling accountability.
  • Contribute to the regulatory strategy by analyzing trends and coordinating global efforts.

Benefits

  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Paid parental leave and disability coverage.
  • Life insurance and wellbeing benefits.
  • 10 paid holidays and 10 sick days per year.
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time with increasing accruals based on tenure.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

About the Team: The Global Regulatory Legal team supports the company across complex and fast-evolving regulatory issues globally, with a focus on privacy, AI, digital platform regulation, online safety, and youth protection. The team works closely with Product Legal, Privacy Legal, GR, and regional legal teams to drive regulatory readiness, support investigations and enforcement matters, and help shape scalable global approaches to emerging regulation. Responsibilities: - Support privacy and data protection regulatory matters across LatAm, Canada, and AMA (Africa, Middle East and APAC), including enforcement actions, and regulator engagement - Advise on emerging privacy, AI, and digital regulation impacting platform operations, product features, data use, minors' safety, and online safety obligations - Monitor and assess new laws, enforcement trends, and regulatory developments across multiple jurisdictions - Help coordinate cross-functional responses to regulators, including risk assessments, written submissions, compliance plans, and internal escalation materials - Partner closely with Product Legal, Privacy Legal, Public Policy, and regional legal teams on implementation strategies and regulatory readiness - Support development of global positions and frameworks on key topics such as age assurance, AI governance, data minimization, cross-border data transfers, and platform accountability - Contribute to broader regulatory strategy workstreams, including horizon scanning, tracker development, trend analysis, and global regulatory coordination

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: - Significant years of legal experience, preferably combining private practice and in-house experience - Strong experience in privacy, data protection, regulatory investigations, or technology regulation - Experience working on complex cross-border matters and interacting with regulators or government authorities - Ability to work cross-functionally across Legal, Product, T&S, GR, and business teams - Comfortable navigating ambiguity and managing multiple high-priority matters simultaneously - Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English Preferred Qualification: - Experience with online safety, AI regulation, platform governance, or youth safety issues is a plus

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $127680 - $297540 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

About TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
Learn more about TikTok
Size
1,750 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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